Now Playing

9/3/2014 1:37PM

Hollywood Ramps Up Animated Film Releases for Fall

Parents frustrated at the scarcity of family films this summer face overload in the fall, as major Hollywood studios bring six between September and December, compared to two between May and August. Will this cause box-office roadkill? WSJ’s Ben Fritz has all the details on Lunch Break. Photo: Focus Features / "Boxtrolls"

This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.

... and from identical to the news on animated Phelps has been a frustrating some of the parents who want to take it step animated movies ... have only been two from major studios ... on top of that no live action movie suitable for children ... before the fall but will be a deluge of it says Ben Fritz joins us now ... to explain what happened ... thank you for being map ... sure I spreading me ... so bad that has the D cells of the son of drought so all kids movies ... yet which is that it'll all a lot of target as it came together there were only two animated films all summer has been a drag into ... and planes Fire and Rescue bladder but you do very well ... um that that this was a much for families a lot of parents were complaining about what could they take the kids to see ... an end to the scene weird reason that if the summer empty the fall is this overcrowded or six animated films ... and another five or six live action movies are clearly targeted ... to families ... so Hollywood canteen quite get it down slightly to go from too little of the summer's too much in the fall and then you know there's a lot of different movie houses putting out movies that in all get together once I was gonna try parents up a tree this summer that that ... no course not but the real problem is that the film businesses ... you know it's not exactly like manufacturing widgets you know it's a creative business and ... specially animation that is yours to make an animated film and getting it done exactly on schedule ... this is difficult is a lot of delays and a couple of the others at least one major in that the film was about the summer got the lead although it in twenty fifteen ... and in some films happen be ready this year or the companies that are making them contacted given out by the end of the year for the fiscal year ... and the result is you know of the conditions to Matson sure everybody really see it thinks the road we will be a success but if history ... is any indicator they can all be successes moment that they come over you must agree to be on the warm out I guess that helps in in someone's what movies the more spread out in the future can we expect that the movie that housing will stay like this this is where the ridiculous that we haven't you know famine and deluge ... the outlook I think is that after a few of the animated movies bomb this fall which is likely the studios are to try to do that to the pledging reveal key to a little while ... but then ... this is happen before I can almost guarantee another couple years ... to be a couple films to delay even a couple of scheduling issues annexing of something like this will come up again this is the nature of the film business that ... even if they you know if there's a smart eating strategy of paper that makes sense that you know the issues of production this just ... make it to top that and ... and and things get off schedule and ... and and and you have offended and radishes that just other things going on with the new making the movie business I'd like herding cats is that is and I'm actually disparate yet funny get the volatile accounts of how the Russian ... absolutely no film set is like a factory you know and it's it's it's very ... silly thing isn't going wrong that so many factors that can control and ... if you look it ... in the nation again as he's hundreds of people often ... several years to make a movie and the circling the wrong direction have to change paths it's very costly and very time consuming ads ... this is the summing that you can always do one step above makes the most sense for the business that it's very difficult and it's ... it's you know sooner one priority is having a good movie that people don't want see ... them and sometimes are Stifel has to be sacrificed ... time and is an important question thank you very much Ben Fritz of the will Street don't we appreciate time